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Les Misérables (1862)
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity, for the inn did not succeed well.
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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
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Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
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Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with two foci. Facts are one, ideas are the other.
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.
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Algebra is applied to the clouds, the irradiation of the planet benefits the rose, and no thinker would dare to say that the perfume of the hawthorn is useless to the constellation.
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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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Born:
February 26, 1802
Died:
May 22, 1885
(aged 83)
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